Sullivan says police are treating the hoax seriously. He says “this is no joke, this is no laughing matter.”

Sullivan says someone called police at the Philadelphia airport and named a passenger who was in possession of a dangerous substance. That prompted a flight en route to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to be recalled. The plane was searched by bomb technicians and cleared.

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